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Originally posted at Occupy Oakland. She’s not Mike. He’s not Cassie. And together on Strike Debt Radio the debt-dispatching duo expose the nasty business of Payday Loan shops. These shops operate on the fringes of the law, charging what amounts to 300% – 1000% and more interest on the money they lend, trapping people

Editor’s note: Strike Debt! is a nationwide movement of debt resisters fighting for a progressive economic agenda in their actions and alliances with several other groups. Susan Harman graciously shared her article documenting Strike Debt!’s Bay Area activities over the past year. You can and should contact the organization for more information. by Susan Harman

Minneapolis activist Doug Mann has been waging a valiant battle to make the Minneapolis City Council hold a referendum on the question of constructing a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings. His legal challenges have successfully delayed, if not negated, the building of the stadium. You can read about his legal fight here. A few

Tom Stephens of Detroiters Resisting Emergency Management has provided news and updates concerning the fraudulent bankruptcy in Detroit for the past several months. Here is his latest excellent summary of the players, the stakes, and the necessary actions. On Thursday, January 16, 2014 in the Detroit federal bankruptcy court, Judge Steven Rhodes issued a decision

Reposted from alexisjkostun.com: For the last week, all eyes have been on Wendy Davis, questioning or defending her parenting and her past. At this point, plenty of articles have been written dissecting when she was divorced, when she was re-married, who paid for what at what time – and I’m not writing one of those

Here’s David Sirota’s piece on one town’s struggle for higher wages and the wrath it inspired from far-away billionaires. A small, job-intensive municipality of 26,000 launches a $15-per-hour minimum wage initiative. This invites the full-on wrath of the Koch brothers, who have calculated what is at stake in even the smallest manifestations of the wage

Dr. Walter Brasch, author of the critically-acclaimed book, Fracking Pennsylvania, is hosting a weekly half-hour radio show about fracking. “The Frack Report” airs 7:30 p.m., Mondays (beginning July 29) and is re-run 7:30 a.m., Wednesdays, on WFTE-FM (90.3 in Mt. Cobb and 105.7 in Scranton.) The show will be also be livestreamed at www.wfte.org and also available a day

A good friend from Texas–a progressive, hardworking social worker named Tamara–sent this letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry. She agreed to let us re-post it because of the stakes in the current struggle for women’s reproductive rights in Texas and other states. Should Tamara wish to engage this subject more, and with others, on this

Alexis Kostun sent us this report four days ago. We’re just getting around to posting it now, but for those outside of Texas who want to understand the stakes in this fight, or even those inside of Texas who haven’t come across Kostun’s blog, this is essential reading. There has been some truly incredible

Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, President and Vice President in the Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States, shared this message today on the events in Egypt. In Egypt the voices of tens of millions of people have been heard. Following months of protests and demonstrations calling for early elections, and after weeks of intransigence by the